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Life Without Gallbladder Tag: Lap Chole – compose of posts pertaining to lap chole (laparoscopic cholecystectomy), a surgical removal of the gallbladder.

Dinuguan – a favorite food

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Eating Dinuguan without Gallbladder

Yesterday, I ate another favorite food – dinuguan. Its been a while after my Lap Chole (Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy) operation last October 1, 2009. For more than 6 months, I wasn’t able to eat and taste the dinuguan.

Dinuguan (blood stew) is a Filipino dish that is composed of pig’s inner parts like stomach, intestines, liver, ears, and snout – mixed with its main ingredient – the pig’s blood. It is usually cooked with vinegar, fish sauce or soy sauce, garlic, and chili to make it spicy.

It so happened that when I went to my mother’s hometown – San Remigio, Cebu, my uncle-in-law’s family celebrated the death anniversary of his sister, Susan Green.
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Medicine – Buscopan Plus

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Buscopan Plus Tablet is manufactured by Boehringer Ingelheim (Phils), Inc. and distributed by Metro Drug Distribution. It contains 10 mg of Hyoscine-N-butylbromide, and 500 mg of paracetamol.

Its approved therapeutic usage as listed in MIMS Philippines: Paroxysmal pain in diseases of the stomach or intestine, spastic pain & functional disorders in the biliary & urinary tracts & female uterine organs (eg dysmenorrhea).

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